Fast Food Island Time

My wife and I pulled into an international burger restaurant on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands one night for dinner. We placed our orders at the speaker, and then pulled up to the window after waiting a while for the cars ahead of us to pick up their orders. We were asked by the young lady what we ordered. Thinking that she should know what we ordered, I recited our meal selections to her. “Let me see your receipt,” she firmly requested. After looking at the receipt, she emphatically said, “You’ll have to turn your car off.”

WTF?? “Turn off my car?,” I asked.

“Yes,” she replied. “Save some gas.”

“What about our orders?”

“They’re not ready. We want to make your food fresh.”

“How long will it take?”

“Ten minutes.”

“Ten minutes?!”

“Yes. Ten minutes.”

“Should we pull our car forward to let the cars behind us get their orders?”

“No. Turn off your car.”

“What about the people behind us?”

“They will have to wait,” she replied matter-of-factly.

Exasperated, we sat in our car and waited. Amazingly no one in the growing line of cars behind us blasted their horn as surely would have happened in the states. After about ten minutes our meals were handed to us. Never mind that they weren’t exactly what we ordered. We were in a hurry to catch some Fourth of July fireworks over the bay. Fortunately for us they were late too.

I have a story to tell too! Once I was in a drive thru waiting for my food. I waited and waited and waited and then they gave me my food. Then I looked in my bag and noticed that they didn't give me ketchup like I asked so I went through the drive thru again. They gave me my ketchup! Neat story huh?

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